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Short lesson by A. Smit and H.W. de Haan explaining how threaded conversations such as found on Usenet are adversely affected by those who "top post" instead of "bottom post" their replies.
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
Offers an extensive discussion of what, and how, to post to newsgroups.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/
Brief discussion of the rationale for not posting in HTML to newsgroups.
http://www.houghi.org/
Provides a list of things to remember when posting to Usenet groups.
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/primer/part1/
Gives a list of behaviours to be avoided when posting to Usenet groups, as well as links to expand on each item.
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html
A list of 16 rules for basic Usenet postings is provided.
http://www.nmt.edu/tcc/help/news/idiot.html
A detailed list of points to remember when posting articles to Usenet newsgroups.
http://advisor.uchicago.edu/docs/general/g_news-eti.html
About attribution, quoting, answering, quotation marks and quoting other resources.
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Detailed article about usenet trolls.
http://brawl-hall.com/pages/trolls.php
People who delight in upsetting other Internet users are known as 'trolls'. This article examines the phenomenon.
http://members.aol.com/intwg/trolls.htm